Wednesday, 13 September, 2006 , 07:09 AFP — The death toll from a powerful blast in this city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast rose to 10 Wednesday after two people, one of them a child, died in hospital, medical sources said.

Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 , 12:28 AFP — Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein insisted Tuesday his regime faced a Kurdish insurgency, rejecting genocide charges over the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign that prosecutors say killed 182,000 Kurds.

Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 , 09:41 AFP — Ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Tuesday accused Kurdish rebels of launching an "insurgency" against his regime and tried to justify his 1987-1988 Anfal campaign that killed 182,000 Kurds.

Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 , 08:15 AFP — Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein on Tuesday urged the chief judge of his genocide trial to label Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas as "insurgents" as they had battled his regime.

Tuesday, 12 September, 2006 , 06:36 AFP — Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide entered its fifth hearing on Tuesday, a day after the former Iraqi ruler charged that Kurdish testimonies against him were dividing the country.

Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 13:56 AFP — Turkey's main Kurdish party on Monday asked Kurdish separatists fighting the government to call a ceasefire amid mounting bloodshed in the country's southeast, the Anatolia news agency reported.

Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 12:14 AFP — Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein said Iraqis should not feel guilty for the Kurds who were killed under his regime, at his trial hearing Monday on charges of genocide.

Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 11:52 AFP — A former female Kurdish guerrilla told the court trying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide Monday how she witnessed first-hand the horror of gas attacks against her people in the late 1980s.

Monday, 11 September, 2006 , 08:22 AFP — A former female Kurdish guerrilla told the court trying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges of genocide Monday how she witnessed first-hand the horror of gas attacks against her people in the late 1980s.

Sunday, 10 September, 2006 , 12:17 AFP — Turkish police said Sunday they had captured two Kurdish militants suspected of being behind two bomb blasts in Istanbul earlier this year, along with five alleged collaborators.